10 Potentially Awesome Sci-Fi Movies Coming In 2018
1. Ready Player One
What’s It About?
Based on Ernest Cline’s mega-selling novel, Ready Player One boasts the giddiest of concepts: what if we could inhabit a virtual world where every realm, character and object read about in books, seen in movies or played in videogames can be interacted with? Director Steven Spielberg has taken Cline’s concept and looks to have turned in a faithful adaptation of the novel, where youngster Wade Watts embarks on an odyssey-like adventure to conquer the ‘Anorak’s Game’ and find an uber rare Easter Egg.
Who’s In It?
X-Men: Apocalypse star Tye Sheridan is Spielberg’s leading man playing Watts – or Parzival, as per his VR persona – and he is joined by Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendlsohn, Simon Pegg, T.J Miller and Mark Rylance as creator of the OASIS world, James Donovan Halliday aka Anorak. In a rare turn of events, composer regular John Williams has not provided the score but has a more than able replacement in Alan Silvestri.
Why It’ll Be Awesome
One of the big questions around this movie when it was first mooted revolves around the heady plethora of licensed characters in Cline’s novel – could Spielberg get agreement to feature the likes of the Duke Nukem, KITT and killer car Christine in his adaptation? The answer is a high-five slapping yes and, as per the teaser trailer doing the rounds at present, we’ll also get to see Freddy Kruger, The Iron Giant and Akira’s iconic motorcycle up on screen. You can’t help but feel this is only the tip of the Berg, so to speak, and that Ready Player One is a movie destined to deliver big on spectacle and offer a race for the prize tale like no other we’ve seen before.
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